[modeleng] Re: Stuart 6A
- From: Jeff Dayman <jeffdayman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:13:58 -0400
If you have some heavy wall pipe short ends, and some scraps of plate stock,
as well as an electric welder, there's no reason to buy a cylinder casting.
You can fab one easily from stock steel for very little money.
For a flywheel, a cast iron weight from a weight lifting set could be
cleaned up and made to look the part, or one could be fabbed from a couple
of steel rings and a cut steel plate, welded together and cleaned up.
Cheers Jeff Dayman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Crosskey" <chris.crosskey@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 9:44 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Stuart 6A
> Has anyone here ever built the Stuart 6A? Opinions on doing it with a
> Myford ML7 and a mid-sized horizontal/vertical milling machine?
>
> I'm considering one as a motor for my boat project (12" to the foot
> paddlewheel launch). I was also wondering about basically co-opting its
> design and building without castings, opinions sought on that too.
>
> Reason for going for it is that it's an established design so info
> available on power output and steam consumption, but the castings are
> rather expensive and I do have lots of bits of biggish stock kicking
> around that I could use. Push comes to shove I might have to buy the
> cylinder block or else come up with a way of doing castings at home...
>
> Chris
>
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